Re: can foiltex be Debianized ?
Christoph Martin <martin@verwaltung.uni-mainz.de> writes:
> Atsuhito Kohda writes:
> > From: Christoph Martin <martin@verwaltung.uni-mainz.de>
> > Subject: Re: can foiltex be Debianized ?
> > Date: 25 Oct 1999 15:45:26 +0200
> >
> > > > tetex-base (0.9.990601-1) unstable; urgency=low
> > > >
> > > > * Upstream removes some nonfree packages, so they are no longer in
> > > > tetex-base, -extra or nonfree. (foiltex, french)
> > > >
> > > > But my main concern is;
> > > >
> > > > > Is there any problem on license ?
> > >
> > > Yes there is. The maintainer of foiltex did not supply an open
> > > license, so the upstream maintainer of teTeX removed it.
> >
> > I see. Then the supplied license of foiltex is not enough
> > even for non-free section of Debian ?
>
> That is not the point. I am just packaging what comes with upstream
> teTeX. And since foiltex is no longer in there, it is not in
> tetex-nonfree. There should be no problem to package foiltex
> separately (, if someone does it).
Would give the same answer for the french package? In the past, there
was a tetex-french package. Can you tell me why it has disappeared?
Thank you for your packaging work on tetex,
Chris
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